Ricardo Gomes is a professor at San Francisco State University. He is director of the Design Center for Global Needs, a nonprofit international research and development center dedicated to promoting responsive design solutions to local, regional and global issues such as inclusive/universal design, health care, the aging, community development and sustainability. He is on the board of directors of the Institute for Human Centered Design in Boston and is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and Epsilon Pi Tau. He received his master’s in fine arts in industrial design for developing countries and a master’s in architectural building technology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his bachelor’s in fine arts in industrial design from Massachusetts College of Art. A former Fulbright Research Scholar in Kenya, Gomes has lectured extensively at universities throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US.
Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions
Breakout Title:
Design to Live: Inclusive Design in the Majority World
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